Just narrowing the space for cars and adding continuous walking paths plus protected bike lanes will get you pretty far. The goal isn’t that every single person should travel by foot or car every time, it’s to make it more common to use those travel modes in general.

And build passenger trains.

I think this is irrelevant now that bicycles with electric motors are so common.

I feel like we’re kinda derailing the discussion if our point of reference is North America. You guys have spent generations building a car-centric society. The same is not true for most countries. You can fix it but your solution will probably involve a lot more public transit rather than bicycles.

For context, aviation is also about 2% of emissions. So it really isn’t nothing.

But the lower-hanging fruit for me is all of the kerosene used to cook. That’s also about 2% of global emissions and it’s a good candidate to be fixed with solar panels and wind turbines.

Nobody’s asking you to cycle for 110 km per day, and the Dutch don’t fo that either. It’s about building cities that are bicycle-friendly, and where people can live in reasonable proximity to their job and all services.

If you’re in the US or Canada the problem is likely zoning and suburbia.

Well, that is cheating.

Yeah they don’t give a shit about money, they just need to win and everybody else needs to lose.

We all get our protein from gut bacteria, or at least thanks to gut bacteria. In nutrition, “protein” refers to the collection of the proteins (amino-acid chain macromolecules) that we can digest. The rest of the proteins (the proteins we can not digest) are called “fiber” in nutrition.

They chickened out for the Gulf of Mexico, taking the coward’s middle road.

(As seen from Sweden)

Unironically, I often think about how maybe we should invite r/Europe to europe.pub, and then I’m like “nah fuck those guys”

One week in migrating Android→GrapheneOS and Google→Proton. Almost everything is the same, but I can’t tap to pay on GrapheneOS, no face camera unlock (fingerprint sensor works well), and Proton Drive is a bit slow for photos. Other than that, I’m not noticing any negatives.

Yeah nah what you’re describing is not a normal subway. Why is the USA such a shithole country?

I remember when the most upvoted Reddit posts had about 1k upvotes, and it was the golden age of reddit.

That should not be the message. Socialized health care is cheaper by far than the premium-on-health model that you’re using in the United States.

It’s the same argument that Republicans have been using to extract concessions from Canada and Europe: “look at these freeloaders, they won’t pay their fair share for defense (read: they don’t buy enough American weapons) and they use the money for socialized health care, we ought to teach them a lesson.”

The truth is that defense or foreign aid isn’t in the same league as health care. You’re giving Israel about 7 billion a year, and don’t get me wrong - that’s a lot and you should stop it. But you’re spending 5.3 trillion on health care. Meanwhile, the record-setting defense budget for 2026 is 718 billion - and interestingly the vast majority of that budget is actually socialized health care! It’s 441 billion going to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

With socialized health care, you could pay a lot less. And I hope you’d use the money for literally anything other than war.

Because the particular cadence and style looks like ChatGPT output. It follows a particular pattern of “it’s not x; it’s y”. In this case, the

This isn’t an oversight; it’s a promise.

doesn’t even make sense from a literary standpoint. It’s perfectly formatted with the semicolon (which few humans understand how to use) and the boldface that excludes the full stop, but it just doesn’t mean anything at all. It just follows the style template.

The next sentence (“… if your work can’t leave the building … the only way to prove that later … is if the software never gave it anywhere to go”) also doesn’t make any sense. No person writes like that. Like what? It sure sounds reassuring but really, what am I supposed to understand from this? That LibreOffice is an offline app? Yes but who the fuck would explain it that way?

We know this is likely ChatGPT in particular because of how it uses emojis: opening sections, terminating conclusions, but never interspersed into a paragraph (which is something a certain segment of humans tend to do).

I want Jews to feel safe in Europe, but I think we need to stop and think a little bit before we målar fan på väggen. Let’s use some actual data. According to the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in Tel Aviv:

Our data for 2025 points to worrying trends. The year witnessed 20 casualties killed in four antisemitic attacks in three countries. This is the highest number of casualties in one year for over three decades.

Despite the name of the publisher, this figure signifies the number of Jews in the global diaspora killed in in 2025. Of course, 15 of those were the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia. So let’s do some quick maffs to put this into context. There are approximately 8.5 million Jews outside of Israel, and in the worst year for Jews in at least 3 decades, the incidence of violence with a fatal outcome was 0.23 per 100,000 people. The homicide rate globally approximately 6 (six) per 100,000, which is about 25 (twenty-five) times higher. For comparison, the homicide rate in Israel is 3.718, and in Sweden it is 0.867.

Now, homicide is not exactly the same as terror killings, not only because the motives differ but because the relationship between perpetrator and victim differ.

So let’s be fair. Let’s use Jewish Israeli victims of terror, specifically Palestinian terror, since 2000. We’re excluding some major incidents, most notably the October 7, 2023 attacks. Here’s the list, tallying 1,529 Jewish victims of terror up until March 2026.

That’s an average of 60 deaths per year, every year, for 26 years. I’m counting 22 victims of Palestinian terror in Israel in 2025 alone. Same figure for Sweden for 2025 was 0 by the way.

Long story short, Israel is much more unsafe for Jews than Europe is.

We should keep that in mind when we talk about how European Jews flee to Israel on account of them feeling unsafe. Because it is not only completely bonkers, it is also part of an Israeli Zionist agenda. They are being fed propaganda because it fits the agenda of a colonialist, apartheid state that is committing a genocide. Do not play into their hands.

Bird flu is not over either. I usually only buy eggs from hens that can go outside, but for a few years hens weren’t allowed outside because of bird flu.

They don’t eat real fiber. They gobble up all of the sterculia gum which, coincidentally, is now also not available for people who need it for medical reasons worldwide.

Yeah, exactly this. Some kids are just different and it really isn’t a fault in the parenting that the child is likely to put themselves in a dangerous situation.

Caring for a kid like that is plenty exhausting enough without the snide remarks of fully grown adults that like to entertain themselves at the child’s expense. The kid I cared for didn’t have a harness but in retrospect that would have been pretty damn handy.

Interestingly, children are way more understanding than most adults.

Reddit got progressively dumber over time, but the drop off that happened in 2023 was just massive. The reposts now come with actual reposted top comments, the fucking bots are locked and loaded and the admins love it or are in on it.